Using S6231 Firewire for xfer from Digital Camcorder

I'm just about to order my S6231, but first a question for S6231 owners who are capturing digital video from a camcorder via the Firewire port:

Is the basic 4200RPM speed disk drive sufficiently fast to handle the data transfer rate of the incoming data stream for you, or was it necessary to use the 5400 RPM (or higher drive) to support this ? My tentative plan is to order a 60GB 4200RPM drive in my S6231, using Portable One as the retailer.

I have considerable experience in capturing video from both analog and digital tape sources, then authoring DVDs using a desktop PC (I've converted about 1,500 hours of content to DVD in the last three years), but this would be my first experience using a laptop computer to do so. And, yes, I know that digital video creation imposes heavy demands from both a capacity and speed perspective on disk drives, RAM, and processor, so bigger and faster will be better. Also, I have a large external USB2 drive which I could use to support the later phases of the DVD creation (editing, VOB creation, etc.).

And, I know that for media creation a big, heavy, high performance laptop would be more appropriate; I'm buying the S6231 primarily for mostly for somewhat light duty while mobile (airplane travel, MS Office usage, DVD viewing, etc) but at certain times I would like to utilize the built-in Firewire capability and download from my digital camcorder via Firewire to disk.

I am focused here on just the transfer data rate of the S6231's 4200RPM drive to configure my order from P1 -- can your drive keep up in realtime with the incoming playback data from your digital camcorder ?

Many thanks.

 

The upgrade to the 7200 RPM unit is probably appropriate here. I haven't done much of this work myself, but it is disk intense.